King's Digital Lab

We create digital tools to explore academic research in new ways.

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Brightening the Covenant Chain

The project investigates the cultures of diplomacy from 1677-1860 between the British Crown and the Six Nations of the Iroquois - the dominant indigenous confederacy of the Northeastern Great Lakes and Canada - and in particular the Covenant...

Complex network graph showing interconnected data portals and open data initiatives. Large central nodes include "stats", "datastore", and government portals like "data.gov". Numerous smaller nodes in orange and purple represent various related services and platforms, all connected by a web of lines illustrating relationships between entities in the open data ecosystem.

Data Portal Explorer

The project explores “public datafication” and public “data worlds”, including comparative analyses of different ways of making public data (quantification and datafication of issues in the public sector) and different ways of making data public...

This diagram presents the 5 STEP-UP platform work-packages associated to research data, software and computing infrastructure roles.

STEP-UP: A Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals

The STEP-UP platform is a project to develop and support digital Research Technical Professionals (RTPs) and their ecosystem.

'Digital infrastructure' – enabling computational modelling, processing of larger datasets, creation of advanced...

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Professor Dame Janet Nelson, 2019. Image John Deehan for the Royal Historical Society — Image John Deehan for the Royal Historical Society

Oct 28, 2024

Tribute to Professor Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson

Obituary of Professor Dame Janet Nelson

One set of visual data transformation with a code snippet in Python on the left and manuscripts on the right. — The process of data transcription © Filippo Astori

Apr 12, 2024

From Cagliari to KDL: Memories of a research stay

What brought me to the Virginia Woolf Building was the doctoral programme I am pursuing at the University of Cagliari under the scientific responsibility of professor Giampaolo Salice, and in particular the training course linked to the PON R&I scholarship I hold.

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Apr 8, 2024

Empowering Artistic Innovation

Experimental digital research is difficult for independent artists to do in terms of finance and skills on their own, but they are exactly the type of people that will move the use of digital tools forward from interesting tech demos to tools of storytelling.

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Activities

Some of the ways we enable and deliver digital research.

Planning and analysis

Defining requirements
Cost estimation
Data analysis
Modelling
Designing technical solutions

Creating and sustaining

Building and maintaining digital resources
Data visualization
Digital accessibility
Archiving and sustainability

Participating, contributing, disseminating

Sharing code
Professional bodies and interest groups
Publications
Outreach and training

Research Themes

Some pathways of innovation we are exploring.

Digital creativity

Experimenting with digital tools to enable, enhance, and expand our cultural experiences and interactions.

Indigenous Digital Humanities

Fostering understanding, respect, and cooperation among holding institutions, researchers and minority groups to help work on complex issues around data from indigenous community sources.

Machine learning and AI

Working to create a virtual cycle around ML and AI that goes beyond single projects solutions across the triangle of critical, analytical and practical RSE-driven research.